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sent. Our harbors, elevators, 'ware*hou8es, flouring and saw mills, breweries, 
tanneries, machine shops, railroad depots, State and other public buildings, 
college and public school edifices, farm-houses, city homes—representations 
of all these are essential to a proper understanding of our industrial and so¬ 
cial progress, and, with detailed descriptions of dimensions, siructure, &c., 
should have a place. 
The condition and prospects of our people would be further fitly represented 
by catalogues of all public libraries, specimens of our school books, furniture 
and apparatus; by copies of our State reports, published histories, newspa¬ 
pers, maps, &c.; by some of our best works of art; and finally by a volume of 
thorough statistical information on every point of prominent interest con¬ 
nected with the past, present and future of the State. 
Such a showing as this—especially of the leading and distinguishing pro¬ 
ducts of our mines, fields, forests and manufactories—would at once reflect 
great honor upon our State, and by means of the influx of capital and immi¬ 
gration that must result from it, prove a great and lasting material benefit. 
To fail would be a shame and reproach to our people. 
If but one earnest, influential man in every neighborhood will determine 
that such a representatition from this state shall be made, and will set him¬ 
self at work without a moment’s delay, it can yet be done. 
By a recent decision of the Board of Commissioners for this State, consist- 
ii g of Col. E. Daniels, Hon. W. H. Doe, Hon. C. C. Sholes, Hon. B. F. Hop¬ 
kins, Surgeon General E. B. Wolcott, Henry Berthelet, Esq., Daniel Newhall, 
Esq., J. M. Durand, Esq., and J. W. Hoyt, it devolves on the undersigned to 
visit as many localities as possible, with the view of arousing the public to the 
urgent demands of the enterprise they have at so late an hour been placed in 
a position efficiently to represent. It is because omnipresence is not possible 
to the Commission that this appeal is published. Remember, whatever is 
done at all, must be done this month ! 
Send your articles, well packed and carefully marked, “ For the Paris Ex¬ 
hibition,” to A. M. Helmer, Esq., Milwaukee, at which place they will be in¬ 
spected by the Commission, and, if approved, forwarded, all together, to New 
York. If rejected they will at once be carefully returned to the contributor! 
The railroad and steamboat lines of the State will carry everything, trans¬ 
portation free. The American and U. S. Express companies also accord free 
transportation to articles of moderate bulk. 
Grains, grass and garden seeds, and other articles of that class, should be 
put up in quantities of one quart to one gallon each ; specimens of corn in 
the ear, in trusses of a half dozen ears or more ; wheat, barley, oats, &c., of 
remarkable growth, in bundles of an inch or two in diemeter, boxed ; samples 
of timber, either in cross sections of the trunk a foot in length or in longer 
sections; boards or plank wrought on one side, to show the possible finish ; 
metallic ores in as large and fine masses as practicable; building stones in 
blocks six inches cubic. In all cases the contributions should be accompanied 
by the name and residence of the contributor, circumstances of occurrence, 
growth, or manufacture, yield, amount of manufacture per annum, &c., &c. 
Send in your contributions and let the^WisconsiADivision of the American 
Department of the Great Exhibition be second to none other. 
J. W. HOYT. 
President Wis. Board of Commissioners. 
This first step was immediately followed by the writing 
of hundreds of letters to prominent farmers, manufacturers and 
business men in all portions of the State, and by personal 
visits to most of the leading towns and cities of Wisconsin, 
from Green Bay, on the north, to Mineral Point, in the south¬ 
west. 
No difficulty was experienced in awakening a deep interest 
